The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi. Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate’s half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender. “No-one knows who I am,” he told the magazine, before claiming: “I live here on less than a dollar a month.” According to Italy’s Vanity Fair his two metre by three metre shack is decorated with football posters of the Italian football giants AC Milan and Inter, as well as a calendar showing exotic beaches of the world.
George Hussein Onyango ObamaVanity Fair also noted that he had a front page newspaper picture of his famous brother – born of the same father as him, Barack Hussein Obama, but to a different mother, named only as Jael. He told the magazine: “I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist.” Embarrassed by his penury, he said that he does not does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation. “If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed,” he said.
For ten years George Obama lived rough. However he now hopes to try to sort his life out by starting a course at a local technical college. He has only met his famous older brother twice – once when he was just five and the last time in 2006 when Senator Obama was on a tour of East Africa and visited Nairobi. The Illinois senator mentions his brother in his autobiography, describing him in just one passing paragraph as a “beautiful boy with a rounded head”. Of their second meeting, George Obama said: “It was very brief, we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger.”
George added he was no longer in contact with his mother and said:”I have had to learn to live and take what I need. “Huruma is a tough place, last January during the elections there was rioting and six people were hacked to death. The police don’t even arrest you they just shoot you. “I have seen two of my friends killed. I have scars from defending myself with my fists. I am good with my fists.”
If he was an unknown up to this point, I’m willing to bet those days are over. C’mon Barack… can you help a brother? Think of the National Security implications.
#18–bhetc==and yet you provide many simple answers:
1. Spiritually, we aren’t responsible for anyone==god is.
2. but if we were, being responsible for everyone is likewise being responsible for no one.
3. there are no obligations in life–only opportunities according to desires and choices.
4. Most people in the world lead materially impoverished lives. One dollar a month? What info is missing?
5. Political campaigns are nothing but manipulation==are their lips moving?
6. Yes, voting. Vote all incumbents out of office.
#20 “Spiritually, we aren’t responsible for anyone==god is.
there are no obligations in life–only opportunities according to desires and choices.”
You crack me up. YOU consistently support the gov’t taking MY money at gun point to give to strangers in need yet, you are being an apologist for Omama NOT giving to his impoverished brother.
Hypocrisy much?
#17 “This is going to be interesting as it unfolds.”
That is if the MSM give it coverage. Remember, the excuse for not covering Edwards was that he wasn’t important, etc. What will be the excuse this time? The Dem Pres nominee isn’t important?
#21–Paddy==you are such a simpleton.
My argument is about how the government should spend the money they DO take.
Certainly, we would all be better off if “the government” (Fed, State, and Local) had none of our money at all and we all operated under a Bond of Freedom as best we arrange ourselves.
Is that what you want paddy-0? No government at all and what government you might allow service only the rich?
Hah, hah. Dolt.
#23 You can’t dodge the issue.
Am I responsible
for other people, or not (as you claim in point #1)?
Do you support the gov’t taking $ from me at gun point to give to others who have less?
Yes, or No.
Didn’t Obama say in the Saddleback that he was responsible “for the least of his brothers?” Well this guy is at the bottom of the food chain isn’t he? And to top it off his name is “George” and Barack living in America is called “Barack”. This is incredible isn’t it?
Say Barack shake the loose change out of your pocket and send your Bro some money, you cheapskate. Man you are so pathetic.
RW
Colorado
#25 Don’t waste your breath. Most of the socialists who normally post here have, wisely, stayed away from this topic.
Except for Booboo, who end up with his foot so far in his mouth that he won’t need an enema for a long time…
#24–Paddy==you ask:
1. Am I responsible for other people? /// Not except I think as fairly and reasonably set forth by law–ie, to feed and cloth your own children and the like. Your fellow citizens?==No.
2. Do you support the gov’t taking $ from me at gun point to give to others who have less? /// No.
3. Yes, or No? /// Usually a valid ultimatim only for very simply questions. Questions and answers of that sort usually leave out anything worth discussing. Kinda like your post.
#27 “1. Am I responsible for other people? /// Not except I think as fairly and reasonably set forth by law–ie, to feed and cloth your own children and the like. Your fellow citizens?==No.
2. Do you support the gov’t taking $ from me at gun point to give to others who have less? /// No.”
Thanks for the answer. I’m glad you don’t support gov’t welfare pgms, national health care, etc., and the taxes that pay for them.
@ 25 Ruth Werre
You should show Barack up by sponsoring George.
We know so little of the story.
Maybe he’ll use it for drugs/guns.
Maybe he’ll refuse it.
Or maybe he isn’t for handouts.
#28–Paddy-0==you simpleton.
Of course I support government welfare programs and nazional healthcare. What would make you think otherwise?
Must be that chasm between yes and no?
#30 “Of course I support government welfare programs and nazional healthcare.”
“Am I responsible for other people?,Your fellow citizens?==No.”
“Do you support the gov’t taking $ from me at gun point to give to others who have less? No.”
Interesting. How is there going to be nat health care without taxing me? Where’s the welfare $ coming from if not by taxing me?
#33–Paddy-0==
All government services are provided by a tax or fee by some defintion or another so I’m not quibbling there. But do I think your money should be taken at GUNPOINT? No. Much easier to attach your assets.
And if income tax is likewise your simpleminded interpretation of your own question, then a national sales tax could raise money, or tax only corporations, but I assume that would upset your sense of “freedom” as well?
Do you ever consider these questions outside your own fantasy land of personal misanthropism, or do you on occasion join the real world?
Charity begins at home. If you have a heart, then you ARE your brother’s (and sister’s) keeper. If you feel otherwise, then Exxon or a big law firm will offer you a high-paying job that you can hoard.
#34 “But do I think your money should be taken at GUNPOINT?”
Good, you don’t support our current income tax laws then. Thanks.